Send us your letters, comments and suggestions. We would love to hear from you!
GD Star Rating
loading...
loading...
If you are having problems ordering on the site email us at [email protected].
Shopping Cart
Already a member?
Send us your letters, comments and suggestions. We would love to hear from you!
loading...
“Dear Tracy Kane, I love this book (Fairy Flight). I think fairies are real too. This is a picture of the fairy house I drew. It is made out of a big shell and wood too.”
loading...
Hi, my daughter and son have been so into fairy houses after they read your book. Thank you for putting it together. I am attaching a couple of pictures from a fairy house that my daughter and her friend made last weekend. They really wanted me to send it to you.
Sincerely, Maithilee
loading...
Lisa & her 3 Granddaughters- Jazmnye, Lyllie & Aleesia
I was looking at all the fun on your website & enjoying hearing about Tracy Kane’s books for children. I will show you what I started to make for my Mother who is now 79 years young-
I have 3 granddaughters that live close to me, and we have a lot of fun gathering simple things for us to add to either some of my attempts to sculpt so, we have a baby cradle, made out of a walnut shell with soft down from the peacocks we have gathered here & the cradle is hanging from the rafters of the upstairs. The baby fairy is hiding inher soft lined walnut bed. but the Mother fairy is looking under the bed we also made out of twigs to find her baby ! It has been fun bringing back some of the simpler ways in life wtih my granddaughters & seeing the way they are so excited as we are bringing the fairy house to “life!”
When you enter inside it has little steps leading up to the bed - where a shelf has a book and a little lamp - just fun!! Acorns are set to depict birdhouses with holes.
There has been many hours put into this project but truly some wonderful times! We spent most of the time cutting a large pinecone from a trip I made on my way back from Lake Tahoe and used the large pinecone to make the roof shakes- I could go on & on. This lil fairy house may never be complete as we find more things to add to it during our walks, but maybe we will have to start a new one soon!
The fairy house has been a rather on going project, as the little fingers can’t stand not being able to touch the things, but just wanted to share some of our simple yet fun times with whomever would like to view it!
I am enclosing the pictures of the girls that helped me with this project and their Great Grandma, whom the fairy house is being made for. Have a great day & thank you for the wonderful books!!
Lisa - (Grandma)
loading...
Hi there!
I am not sure how much feedback you get about various things, but I had to share this with you both. When I picked up Jack from school on Friday, the very first thing he told me about was the fairy houses. I am assuming he first heard about it on Friday at Library time, because he said that he spent his whole recess making fairy houses (not playing soccer! ).
After school, he opted to not play “wall-ball” (I was shocked!) and, instead, he and another boy, George, made fairy houses nearby. We went on to pick up his sister from daycare and Jack initiated conversation with 2 of his former teachers (he is usually responsive to their questions, but does not run up and start talking with them). He was telling them all about the fairy houses and how they could teach their classes about them, too! He was talking about Tracy Kane and how the houses are built in nature, etc.
I could not believe how much of an impression this had made on him, but that was only the beginning …
So, Friday, Saturday, and today he continued to build them-everywhere and anywhere we were. That is all he wanted to do! We had a block party on Sat and he even got the other kids on the street to come over and look at ones he built, and then they all started building them, too!
The houses have become more detailed and elaborate over the weekend - some are two stories with roofs, one has a water slide into a dog bowl (not nature, but oh well), one has a water supply made from an oyster shell, and I could go on.
So, to end this very long email, I just have to say thank-you! Jack has always been a great builder, but the creativity and imagination that has come from this has been unbelievable.The wonder of it all and excitement that I see in his eyes as he is building these houses for the fairies is what true teaching is all about-inspiring young minds!
Fondly,
Ashley Zapata
loading...
I have to tell you, you have SO inspired my grand daughter, Kyla Rose. We have gone in the woods and collected materials and created some beautiful fairy houses. She absolutely ADORES building them and the first thing she does when she comes to visit is run to the garden and check out the houses!
Thanks for the inspiration!
Rosemary Smith, CT
loading...
We learned about building fairy houses through Chinaberry catalog and then my sister got Kristen’s Fairy House DVD for my nieces (9 and 12). The cousins always build fairy houses when they are together, pretty much all the time. Even the 12 year old girl and 5 year old boy, that’s all they do, no matter the weather. My sister has a cottage on Lake Huron in Michigan, and there are many fairy houses all around it now. And they all build fairy houses with all their friends, too. At our bus stop in New Hampshire there are fairy houses, and now at all their friend’s houses.
We went to the the Fairy Houses Tour event in Portsmouth, NH this fall (got rained on!) and met Tracy. We always give fairy house presents to all kids’ friends for birthdays, etc.
Thanks for giving our family such a wonderful, magical gift!!
Mary Hibbard (and Abby and Sam)
loading...
Hello,
Just wanted to send a picture of our fairy house from last summer, on this cold winter day… Hope you enjoy!
Allison and Daniel McGarr
Ohio
loading...
Dear Tracy,
Thank you so much for meeting Madison and I while in Maine. Thanks for signing the artwork, too. I wanted to share with you Madison’s Hawaiian Fairy House.
Those are mangoes from our tree. That is a sweet-smelling plumeria flower atop.
Aloha,
Terri
loading...
Hi there,
We found out about Fairy Houses this summer when Barry and Tracy came to the Sandwich Public Library for a reading and community Fairy House building. Our family is pictured on the Sandwich Library events page. Our 9 year old daughter loves building and has taught many of her friends the right technique. We ordered some books for her buddies for Christmas.
Thanks for the great work!
Susan Smith
loading...
I LOVE YOUR SITE. I’m so glad I found you. I have actually frozen some milk weed pods for next spring. I understand fairies love them for beds. I’m giving the book and dvd to my fab sister to share with her 3 granddaughters who are in the process of building fairy houses. I will take pictures.
thank you for your wonderfulness. Merry Christmas!!!!!!
Linda Lane
loading...
My grandaughter visited with us recently and talked her cousin Tyler into helping her build a Fairy House. I helped a little. She asked me if I would send it to your web site and ask that it be added to the pictures she had taken when at the Sanford, Maine library.
I am not very good at this sort of thing but here goes. Thank you for listening.
Wes King (Papa)
loading...
Hello!
Just a little Fairy Hello to say that my daughters, husband and I enjoyed meeting Tracy and Barry at the Fairy Festival in Glen Rock, PA. We live in Baltimore and we thrilled to discover the Fairy Festival just a 45 min. drive away.
We love the DVD Kristen’s Fairy House and have build some fairy houses of our own. We also have had a fairy party. We will try to send pictures. We hope to travel to Maine sometime to see all of the fabulous fairy houses!
Thanks again to Tracy and Barry for a wonderful chat.
Amy Kline
loading...
Hello Tracy Kane!
A couple of years ago my mother, daughter and I were visiting LL Bean in Freeport and you were there for a book signing. My three year old daughter and I built a fairy house. She was immediately hooked and we found ourselves reading the stories for the rest of our visit in NH.
Since this time ( she is now 5 ) we build fairy houses every camping trip we take. It has become a tradition. We live in the west, so our fairy houses can vary in content. My daughter has involved her 11 year old cousin and whenever they are together, they go off and build one.
Recently, my daughter had a fairy birthday party and all the kids built fairy houses! They had a great time. I just wanted to thank you. It has proven to be a very important learning/teaching, memory creating idea. It has also given me an idea for an activity/event in the school I work in!
Any chance you’d come out west and do an author’s visit? Just an idea..
Sincerely, Karen Millenbach
loading...
Florida Fairy Home
This is my daughter’s Kailey, Maggie and Annie’s Florida Fairy home. It has a coconut for shelter and palm leaves for a roof and lots of shells for beds and tubs and even a clam shell shaped pool. Enjoy we sure do!
Mary Ann & Chris Toia
loading...
This is our story to share…
We had a wonderful time at the opening of “Fairy Houses - The Musical”.
First we had dinner at Flat Breads pizza and stopped to pose for a picture in front of the ferries. Then our little fairies danced around the anchor and bell monuments until it was curtain time. The doors opened and we immediately headed for the snack table because pizza and salad just wasn’t enough for these growing little fairies. After animal crackers and apple juice, we got our programs and waited in line for an autograph from and a picture with author Tracy Kane. The story was beautiful and the acting was quite impressive. We look forward to coming again!
Christina St. Cyr
loading...
Hello,
My granddaughter, 4 1/2, has love the Fairy Houses book and Kristen’s Fairy House video very much. I have to admit, all the adults love it too.
She has been inspired to create a fairy house at Granny’s house, and one at her own home. The imagination is beautiful. She has grown keenly interested in Monarch butterflies as a result.
Thanks to Ms. Kane for a gorgeous idea!
Jan Martelle
loading...
My daughter and son spent the whole summer building fairy houses wherever we went. There are houses in our yard, at my mothers, and in many states, as we spend a lot of time camping. Because of the wonderful fairy books my daughter has a new love for nature and the world of fairies.
Debby Keiran
loading...
Dear Tracy,
My daughter Samantha and I attended the reading of Fairy Houses at the Groton Public Library in Groton, CT. Since that time Samantha has been building fairy houses everywhere we go, including her school.
Samantha is a student in Mrs. Landroche’s kindergarten class. I read Fairy Houses to her class. I also brought along lots of natures best materials for building fairy houses. Below is what the children had to say about their experience building fairy houses.
Per the Students of Mrs. Landroche’s Kindergarten class:
“We made fairy houses. We used bark, sticks, shells, leaves, pine cones, rocks, grasses, berries, wood chips and flowers. Everything was from nature. It is good to build fairy houses near a garden or the woods or a meadow or somewhere where you can find lots of stuff to build with. We built our houses in a garden near our classroom. We loved building fairy houses. It was really fun.”
They now call that garden area “Fairy House Village”. They even built a fairy school! It was great fun to share your book and love of fairies with the children. The class will be reading Fairy Boat and Fairy Flight within the next few weeks. Mrs. Landroche is hooked and plans on building fairy house every year.
I love your books and it is wonderful to see the joy in Samantha’s and the other children’s faces when they work on and visit their fairy houses.
Thank you for the inspiration.
Mrs. Landroche’s Kindergarten class
and Amy and Samantha Gudis
loading...
Hi!
We met at the Boston Show and I mentioned that we, too, are fairy house builders. These are photos from last summer. They (the houses) are still at Lake Whitehall which is in Hopkinton, MA.
Thank you for all the joy your books and video has brought to our lives. We are so grateful to savor the gifts of nature. We have even received notes from the Woodland Fairy and the Meadow Fairy!
Sincerely,
Robin Batchelder
loading...
Dear Tracy,
My mother met you earlier this summer at Mackworth Island during a garden tour. She told you about my daughter’s idea for starting a book club with her friends. My mother suggested that I email you, with pictures attached.
My daughter Kate was a bit sad at the end of Kindergarten. She decided to start a book group with a few of her friends. Her idea was to choose a book for me to read, then do a related craft and have some kind of thematic snack to go along with the book. For the first meeting, Kate had no trouble choosing her favorite books, Fairy Houses and Fairy Boats. We went to a nearby craft store and found some inexpensive model sail boats, perfectly suited for fairies. We got fabric markers to decorate the sails along with shells and starfish to decorate the boat.
I read the stories aloud as the girls sat on blankets on our deck. Our guests were mesmerized by the stories and illustrations. Then we made the fairy boats (my husband had assembled the wooden models ahead of time), coloring and attaching the sails and decorating the decks. After they were done, they launched their boats in a kiddy pool. I had made each child a tiny fairy out of beads and fabric flower pedals to take home. We ended the event with sugar cookies sprinkled with fairy dust.
The attached pictures show the entire group holding up their completed fairy boats. One picture is of a friend named Paige, who is holding her boat and fairy (with fuchsia cover-up on) and the other is of my daughter Kate in a blue and green striped suit.
We are huge fans of your stories. My mother just purchased your newest book for us, Fairy Flight. Thank you for writing such wonderful books, stories that have sparked the imagination of my girls. Every summer we go to a cottage in Belfast, ME, which is now surrounded by the most adorable fairy houses. We’re on our way there now and I know the first thing Kate will do when she gets out of the car is to check her fairy houses.
We look forward to reading your books for years to come.
Thank you, Kelly S.
loading...
Our family loved your video! (Kristen’s Fairy House) Thanks for telling a beautiful story.
Mary Christine McMahon, Missouri
loading...
We are avid fairy house builders in our backyard, front yard and wherever we are that lends itself. My 3 3/4 year old daughter has been swept up through Tracy’s video and books since she was 2 years old!
We look forward to the next one and a possible event with Tracy. Kai’li is psyched and we’ll be in town with grandma and her aunt and the whole family!
I will keep watching the web…….thanks…….Lesley
loading...
Dear Tracy Kane,
After reading your article “Fairy Tale” in the Sunday paper, it made me wish I were a child again. At the age of 80, however, it’s not possible! Having three great grandchildren, I would love to be able to purchase your two books and video for their Christmas present. They are at a great age for Fairies.
Looking forward to reading them myself and giving joy to them for Christmas and many years to come.
Sincerely,
Ellen Selwood
loading...
Here is a picture of my daughter Shannon with her first Fairy House.
Russ, Newburyport, MA